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The LDI Mission |
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The LDI pursues a mission of ecologically
and culturally responsible land design through education, research,
outreach and service, and through the integration of current and
future efforts into a land design agenda. The LDI and its mission grew
from decades of applied land design research and outreach projects of
faculty in the Department of Landscape Architecture, College of
Architecture and Planning, and other university units. This work
includes land management, planning and design initiatives and specific
projects addressing resource sensitive urban design, regional
planning, GIS mapping and land use planning, greenway planning, urban
forestry, historic landscape preservation, recreational design,
alternative/sustainable agriculture, ecological restoration,
equestrian facilities design, and alternative energy production. Prior
to creation of the LDI, this work was largely conducted by individuals
or interdisciplinary teams formed on a project basis. The LDI mission
grew from the need to integrate discrete efforts into a land design
agenda.
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The LDI Agenda |
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The LDI
integrates, coordinates, and facilitates land design initiatives,
combines resources across the range of expertise, and increases the
ability to conduct significant, comprehensive projects. This research
based institute coordinates land planning and design teaching,
research, and outreach. It facilitates and integrates diverse faculty
with established records in land design education, research, and
service. It promotes design and planning that sustain the health and
well being of the ecological and cultural landscape, and sustains the
productivity of the land resources upon which human well being
depends.
The LDI agenda is grounded in the land resource, land ethic, and
managing ecological and cultural land based resources from global to
local scales. It provides an institutional pathway to link land based
interdisciplinary research into an integrated land design agenda. The
LDI promotes education in the
basic interrelationships that sustain ecological and cultural
resources, research that enhances
the ability to sustain these resources,
service to society that promotes land based solutions, and
demonstration through actual
projects that enhance quality of life and promote decisions that
sustain the land based resource. |
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